Re: Making history making us

... would this be in a radically dualistic way or within a monistic framework? Existentially speaking, that is, within the framework of our

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"... would this be in a radically dualistic way
or within a monistic framework?"
<br><br>Existentially speaking, that is, within the framework of our
existence, we undeniably encounter duality. This is how the
reality (i.e., the physical reality of the world we
inhabit) of our existence appears to us, and it is
absolutely critical that we do not deny this reality even if
it is only docetic, or an illusion.<br><br>It's a
real illusion. And an unreal illusion too. That is,
it's a parodox, and like all parodoxes, it may causes
some discomfort, but this doesn't make it any less
true.<br><br>Metaphysically speaking, that is, beyond or above (i.e., "meta")
the physical dimension is another matter, or perhaps
more accurately, non matter.<br><br>Is the latter
realm (of non-matter or non-earthly reality), from
whence the former arises, itself divided? Are there
co-eternal realities of good and evil? Or are good and evil
both resolved in a divine unity? <br><br>Different
Gnostic schools seem to have different notions about
this, and so it follows that the academic observers of
these schools would likewise be divided--some
contending that one is only a true Gnostic if they believe
proposition abc while others contending proposition xyz
really defines a Gnsotic.<br><br>One's own answers to
these questions will depend on where one's interests
lie. That is, if you're interested in attaining
academic answers, then you'll dive into the world of
academic distinctions (and to be sure, when it comes to
the Gnostics, this is a world of division unto its
own). <br><br>However, if you're after answers about
ultimate reality itself, that's another non-matter
altogether. In which case, experience--the excperience of
gnosis--will inform or frame your insight into ultimate
reality.<br><br>And these insights may not be fixed. Often times, and
in very contemporary fashion, it seems that people
imagine gnosis to be a fixed set of information, almost
as if it's the answer to a mathematical equation.
You know, as if you can say "I've got it!" to the
problem of understanding ultimate reality.<br><br>Perhaps
you can, but based on the various experiences and
insights of various Gnostics, it appears to come in
penetrating waves of deeper perceptions and insights. And so,
we may perceive a oneness and then plunge further
and see a kind of division, and then further still, a
greater unity, and so on.<br><br>This in itself seems to
imply an ultimate division, since our insights keep
splitting up into new insights. And yet, with each split
there is a new fullness or pleroma.<br><br>So what's at
the end of the line? Is it a division or unity?
<br><br>Guess we've all got to plunge further to find out, eh?
<br><br>And as we plunge, it may be helpful to remember that
ultimate divinity for most, if not all traditions, is held
to be ultimately unknowable. But this does not
preclude the possiblity of attaining such knowledge
(anything's possible), or in its stead, the possiblity of
achieiving a new fullness of knowledge.

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